The functional paradigm has been influencing mainstream languages for decades, making developers more efficient whilst helping reduce maintenance costs.

As we are faced with a programming model that needs to scale on multi-core architectures and distributed environments, concurrency becomes critical. In these concurrency models, immutability, a key feature of functional programming paradigm will become even more evident.

To quote Simon Peyton Jones, future concurrent languages will be functional; they might not be called functional, but the features will be.

This talk by Francesco Cesarini was recorded at our Erlang & Elixir meet-up at the Erlang Solutions office in Krakow.